La investigación científica española y brasileña en Biblioteconomía y Documentación: visibilidad y representación de los principales programas de postgrado

It is analyzed the production of the main in Spain and Brazilian authors in Librarianship and Information Science from 1995 to 2004, to verify the scientific behave in the aspect of visibility on reviews which the researchers has been published and the productions through no conventional means of publicizing on metric study system (books, books chapters and congress documents). The methodology has been based on selecting information through the databases (SciELO, SSCI, ISOC, Francis and LISA) and citation analysis in Web of Science and Google Schools, according to the information gotten from the Curriculum of the researchers. The data received turned into a .txt format and after that, exported to a database and to data sheets. For the results, generally, the universities had a high rate in absolute visibility number within were University Carlos III of Madrid (n=712), University of Valencia (n=613), UNESP (n=613), Complutense University of Madrid (n=549), University Federal de Santa Catarina (n=534), University of Barcelona (n=456), University of São Paulo (n=408), University of Extremadura (n=394), Federal Fluminense University (n=358), University of Zaragoza (n=354), University of Salamanca (n=345) University of Murcia (n=326), Federal University of Minas Gerais (n=321), University of Brasilia (n=312), University of Granada (n=285), Catholic University of Campinas (n=269), University of Alcalá de Henares (n=239) University and the University Federal da Paraíba (n=221). For books, book chapters and papers presented at the conference proceedings has been a change of 180 degrees at some universities as UNESP, University of Murcia and University of Alcalá de Henares with a very positive character. Universities as University Carlos III of Madrid, Complutense University of Madrid, University of Zaragoza, University of Salamanca, Federal Fluminense University, University of São Paulo, Federal University of Minas Gerais, among others, had a very regular rate in all subjects, with a high average and very positive scientific growth.